Definition of "postage stamp" []

• A small, usually adhesive label issued by a government and sold in various denominations to be affixed to items of mail as evidence of the payment of postage. (noun)

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• "But in Sperry’s experimental frog, some of the nerve cells sniffing out belly skin found the postage stamp of belly skin grafted on the back, presumably because it smelled right."
• "While discussing his neighbor's contemptible conduct over the after-supper pipe, I remarked that I offered to bet him ten dollars to a postage stamp that he wasn't born and bred in our"
• "[The postage stamp bears the mark Palaiseau 9 May, '66.]"